One way children are remarkable learners is that they learn from others. Critically, children are selective when assessing from whom to learn, particularly in the domain of word …
Young children develop causal knowledge through everyday family conversations and activities. Children's museums are an informative setting for studying the social context of …
LE Schulz, EB Bonawitz - Developmental psychology, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
Researchers, educators, and parents have long believed that children learn cause and effect relationships through exploratory play. However, previous research suggests that …
A Gopnik, L Schulz, LE Schulz - 2007 - books.google.com
Understanding causal structure is a central task of human cognition. Causal learning underpins the development of our concepts and categories, our intuitive theories, and our …
Counterfactual reasoning is a hallmark of the human imagination. Recently, researchers have argued that children do not display genuine counterfactual reasoning until they can …
A Shtulman, S Carey - Child development, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The present study investigated the development of possibility‐judgment strategies between the ages of 4 and 8. In Experiment 1, 48 children and 16 adults were asked whether a …
Causal learning requires integrating constraints provided by domain-specific theories with domain-general statistical learning. In order to investigate the interaction between these …
Our folk psychology includes intuitions about free will; we believe that our intentional acts are choices and that, when such actions are not constrained, we are free to act otherwise. In …
A Shtulman, J Phillips - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2018 - Elsevier
Young children have difficulty in distinguishing events that violate physical laws (impossible events) from those that violate mere physical regularities (improbable events). They judge …